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Wednesday, June 26, 2002

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Do Content Labels Really Protect?
Jim Wagner

Officials at the Big 3 of Internet portals -- America Online (AOL) , the Microsoft Network and Yahoo! -- announced Tuesday that 93 percent of their Web sites are now labeled to prevent children from accessing adult and questionable material, but the real effectiveness of the program remains to be seen. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 74 percent of computers in public schools around the U.S. had filtering technology in place by the end of 2000. The ICRA is now making a push for filtering technology in the home....

 


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